Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the STATA Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is a pioneer of database research and technology. He is the 2014 Turing Award winner, an award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community." The award is considered the highest distinction in the field...more »

Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the STATA Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is a pioneer of database research and technology. He is the 2014 Turing Award winner, an award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community." The award is considered the highest distinction in the field of computer science, akin to a Nobel Prize for the field.« less